Mission 668
Invention Fair: Paper, Compass and Printing
Badge: Grand Inventor
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Build an invention fair: 3 working booths, a timeline and a compass hunt.
Paper. The compass. Printing with movable type. All first made in China. Can your fair make the judges gasp?
- New skill Using lodestones and cartography tables
- Level 7 · Time Travellers
- Difficulty Intermediate
- Mode Creative
- Time 45–60 min
- Ages 13+
What you’ll build
Build an invention fair with three working booths: paper from sugar cane, a compass linked to a lodestone and map printing at a cartography table. Lay a timeline path, hide a lodestone prize and let a judge hunt it and score every booth.
Finish line: Your fair has three working booths, a timeline path and a judge who found the prize and picked a winner.
Bonus challenge: Add a fourth booth for an invention nobody has made yet. Give it a block on the timeline path. How far past today does it go?
You’ll need
- Sugar cane
- A lodestone
- Compasses
- Maps
- A cartography table
- A family member as judge
You choose
- My fair's name
- My booth colours
- The invention I think will win
Stuck?
- Compass not pointing to the lodestone? Hold the compass and tap the lodestone to link them.
- To copy a map, put the map and an empty map together in the cartography table.
- Lodestone compass spinning? It loses its link if the lodestone is broken, so don't move it.
For grown-ups
Get this mission
This mission is in Mission Pack 66. Each printable has the full steps, a Plan & Log page and a parent page.
Print one mission at a time. You never need to print everything.
Played on Minecraft Bedrock on iPad. Buttons can differ on other devices and versions.